Afrigather Feb. 20 (UPI) — Two off-duty Detroit cops have been discovered shot to demise Sunday within an house, the place a child was additionally found unhurt.
Detroit Police Chief James White confirmed the 22-year-old lady and 26-year-old man, discovered on the house in Livonia about 20 miles from Detroit, have been officers in his division. He mentioned their deaths seem like a murder-suicide associated to a home dispute.
“A really tragic and unhappy course of occasions,” White told reporters. “It seems to be home. It seems like preliminarily murder-suicide, and that is the place we’re proper now.”
“It is a unhappy day for our division. Ideas and prayers exit to the household in addition to our officers, who you may see over there are taking it fairly laborious,” White mentioned as he referred to Detroit cops who have been on the scene.
The case is being dealt with by the Livonia Police Division. The victims’ identities haven’t been launched.
Police mentioned the child is at present within the care of a member of the family.
